Bees

When farmer Gary Guthrie describes recent changes to his farm, his eyes light up. After adding native prairie to his central Iowa operation, he remembers hearing the hum of pollinators flocking to the property. “Oh, my goodness, it was stunning, the level of…

By Jake Buehler Bees are sometimes delivered to greenhouses in ‘pollinator boxes’ Juice Images / Alamy Stock Photo Farmed bees used to pollinate crops in commercial greenhouses are interbreeding with the local bees and the potential consequences could be d…

4 with 4 posters participating Bees fuzzy yellow bodies and hairy legs are custom-built for picking up pollen. Nothing can distribute the yellow powder more efficientlysomething farmers that shell out for commercial beehives every growing season know all too…

Wax Work Honey

The bee population is plummeting and the ecosystems and food systems that depend on their pollination are declining. One startups solution to the incoming beepocalypse is to make better bees. A report issued this winter found that last year U.S. beekeepers r…

The bee population is plummeting and the ecosystems and food systems that depend on their pollination are declining. One startups solution to the incoming beepocalypse is to make better bees. A report issued this summer found that last year U.S. beekeepers…

As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa w…

Creepy-crawlies are among the oldest life forms on this planet. Before dinosaurs ever walked the Earth, insects were certainly already there. Some estimates date their origins to 400 million years ago. They're also extremely successful. Of the 7-8 million spe…

As someone who grew up with chronic sore throats and colds, Carly Stein found that propolishas been an absolute game-changer. Enter Beekeeper’s Naturals. A chance visit to an Italian pharmacist in college changed Carly Stein’s life. Today, she is the founder…

In Minnesota as boy I used to raise Monarch butterflies. On summer break mornings I’d go behind my parents house into a large park that had a creek flowing through it. Between the creek and our house was a football field sized patch of grass which had a few o…